Word: beaufort
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...Born Marshall Clement Sanford on May 28, 1960, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to a prosperous heart surgeon. His family spent summers in Beaufort County, South Carolina, where Sanford moved...
...Their high-speed, tight-formation flying routines, however, can exact a dear price. Some two dozen Blue Angel pilots have died in air shows or training accidents. The latest casualty is Lieut. Commander Kevin Davis, whose F/A-18 Hornet clipped a stand of pine trees before crashing into a Beaufort, S.C., residential neighborhood. The cause of the crash is unknown, but as former Blue Angels pilots have noted, such aerial acrobatics leave no room for human or mechanical error. Davis...
...worked at Imo's, a pizza parlor even closer by. And to commit the crimes he is accused of, all he had to do was take his Nissan truck two blocks to Interstate 44. The 50 miles or so he would drive to the rural towns of Richwoods and Beaufort were the most significant travel he would do. That's where, back in 2002, he found Shawn Hornbeck, then 11; and Ben Ownby, 13, just last week...
...Some bears have been resorting to cannibalism to survive and others are simply turning up drowned, trapped in open water as they try to paddle to ice floes that have melted away. In one month in 2005, more than 50 bears were observed swimming in the Alaskan Beaufort...
...status. Eton has only a handful of true competitors at the top of the private-school heap, plenty of money and applicants, and it has honed its procedures to identify the smartest boys. But it is uniquely in the public eye - Princes William and Harry didn't go to Beaufort Community School - so the continuing criticisms of Eton's role in perpetuating a stratified society have an impact. The school was founded to educate "poor scholars," and while existing programs to reach beyond its pool of mostly rich white boys have scored some results, Eton doesn't mirror the diversity...